Besides seeing Robyn Hitchcock & Joe Boyd, and going to the spring flower show, we did some other stuff. We ate. Friday night we had a pre-theater supper at Trattoria No. 10 – a reliable old fave. I had the squash ravioli – 4 large ones, and the nice touch was shreds of zucchini and [...]
Saturday night in Chicago we went and got an education on the history of folk rock, from Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd.The show was about two hours, Joe reading from his book, and Robyn singing tunes selected to illustrate historical points – ended up being 8 songs in all – the ones we heard are [...]
It’s early afternoon on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend – meaning we still have another day off. I woke up at 6:30, (well, after waking at 2:00 and at 5:10 or so to feed the cats) and went back to sleep until 7:12, instead of lying awake worrying like I have the last few [...]
We arrived at Heathrow at about 7:30 a.m. Monday, March 29. We had to shuffle through the passport check, then got our bags, took the train to Paddington, and then a taxi to our apartment in Camden. We got settled then went to the close-by Waitrose and bought some food – cheese, pears, buns, yogurt, [...]
When I was an art history student, we were taught that you have to judge the art on its own and not try to create a facile explanation based on what you know about the artist’s life – or your own. So I was amused by the serious question asked, around minute 2:21, in this [...]
Lyrics by Robyn Hitchcock, music by Johnny Marr – performed by RH in Chicago, March 5, at Schuba’s. Also, with the full band, from Robyn’s web site, and a supporting cast of thousands, or at least dozens – love the steamer.
Reading this article by Marcelle Richards of Gastroapocalypse Test Kitchen, on working up a recipe for parsnip-pink-peppercorn cake, inspired by carrot cake, made me realize that I haven’t been working on recipes much recently. I’ve been making little tweaks, but not putting a couple of patterns together to come up with something new. Maybe the [...]
I thought it would take longer to do the new Word Press Debslunch, but it was easy peasy. I’m trying a theme by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick, which I think is the basis for Robyn Hitchcock’s new Word press site. It also seems to have a really nice little photo gallery in a [...]
